Linking to your SERPs

Is it benefical to place links of a page site to your SERPs?

[the_gavna]

Hi

I wonder if anyone can tell me if there are any real benefits or disadvantages to linking to your SERPs?

If you placed a link on a site to msn search results page with your sites in the top positions then i would get a keyword packed page with a pR6 linking to me.

Could this be classed as spam? and will it improve inbound links and pR?

Thanks
Gavin

[hakre]

any real benefits or disadvantages to linking to your SERPs?

are you shure this page will have a pr6 in real? i think each search enginge won't add it's own pages pr to the sites listed / won't spider their own index because this can mess such an index really up.

[Stretch]

I tried this and shortly after got dropped from msn. I can't confirm SERP linking was the reason I got dropped but, not surprisingly, I won't be doing it again.

[the_gavna]

Very true! they are assigned an initially high pR which i'm sure will drop. However if i linked to every BBCi SERP then would google class those as votes from BBCi to me? Google can't usually find these dynamic pages because they aren't hard linked from any where.

>i think each search engine won't add it's own pages pr to the sites listed / won't spider their own index

They wouldn't index themselves but would they index other sites? would google pick up msn and bbc pages and count them as links?

I have a sneaking suspicion they would and i don't think it could be classed as spam but it is definitely a bit of a cheeky tactic.

[Shak]

No, nada, nahin :0

Dont do it ...

look for guessed PR on this site, and that should answer your questions...

Shak

[the_gavna]

I want to stay well clear of any unethical practices. And the general opinion seems to be that the links would be classed as completely worthless once they'd been spidered, is that correct?

I'm not completely convinced that these links would have no value but it doesn't seem worth it so i'll stay well clear of it. That is unless anyone else has had a positive result using this tactic?

Cheers for the feedback!

[pixel_juice]

Many search engines have disallowed results pages in robots.txt - google have disallowed /search for instance, and the bbc has disallowed /cgi-bin (where the search results appear. So spiders won't even index the results pages anyway in a lot of cases. Of course you could probably find exceptions...

[too much information]

I found a site yesterday with a hidden link to a page full of links to search engines, and I mean EVERY one. They don't point to where he can be found in the SERPS because he probably isn't in them. He's completely grey bar on both of his sites.

I don't know that this proves those links to be good or bad, because both sites are full of every spam technique I have ever heard of. AND he paid someone to do that for him.

[skipfactor]

One of my sites sells big widgets that you live in. I have a seller's page that details the benefits of listing with us. Among these, I include a few broad #1 SERPs. This has been a great marketing tool and I never even pondered any kind of boost nor penalty from these SERP links.

I just can't see an SE penalizing anyone in any fashion for linking to them! My bet is it's simply being ignored.